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user-inactivated  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What? - NYTimes Magazine

    Prison society is usually strictly segregated, so it was no small thing when Carlos, a Mexican, and Roby, an Asian guy, struck up a friendship.

This is something I never really understood. Why is it so universal that inside of prisons races are so strictly segregated like this? Is it because of the gangs that stick to their race getting thrown in the most, then the rest of people just conform to this since they are the most powerful groups?